Good Visit with my DAD!

I am so happy to say that the visit with my dad was fantastic - I was very unsure, as I think he was, since we hadn't spent any time alone in over 10 years.
Friday night we went to the movies with 12 of my students - I took them all to see Twilight on opening night - yes I am insane!
After the movies my dad and I went to Cabana, an amazing Cuban restaurant on Atlantic Ave - I think he was amused by the whack people that bar hop down there.

Saturday was a fun day - we went to breakfast, put my grill together (finally!), went for a walk on the beach & saw some really cool kite surfers, then we went up to City Place to go to Anthropologie and to have dinner at Il Bellagio. We were able to have some good conversation - nothing forced, everything nice. It was good.

Sunday we went to lunch & then it was time to go to the airport - saying goodbye was sad - and hopefully so much time won't pass again.
I am so glad he came to visit!

College Tour

I took a group of 14 of my 10th graders on a college tour throughout Florida this past week - we went to UCF, USF, FSU, and UF over the course of 3 days. We were on a tour with an outside provider and there were 40 kids on the tour all together - all of the other kids on the tour were disgustingly rich snotty ass white kids. For the first 24 hours together, most of these kids were mean to my kids; talking about them & teasing them - but my kids never let it get to them- they just let it roll right off & went about their business having a good time - our kids have so much class! We all learned so much on this trip - not only was it fun (most of the time...) but it was very educational for everyone.
One of the best parts was being with the kids when Obama won and being able to share that with them. Very memorable.